March 16, 1922.

Dear Friends:  

The pressure on one’s time is so great that there seems to me no option but to acc-  
ept the Vienna proposal of 14 days’ interval, much as I regret the necessity.  

Dr Cole nearly died this week from pneumonia and heart failure, but she rallied  
well and is now out of danger.  

I had four interviews with Blumgart and two with Oberndorf on their way back to  
New York. They both made the impression of intelligence and devotion to Psa; perhaps  
O. is the abler of the two, but very limited and fixed. We established good contact  
that ought to bear fruit for the Journal, etc. I was truly amazed to hear how little  
progress Psa had made in America in the past ten years, in spite of the flood of writ-  
ings there, books, magazines, newspapers, etc. It is a strong confirmation of the pre-  
ference of the native American for superficial sensationalism, and his dread of pub-  
lic opinion. Outside this handful of foreign Jews in N.Y. there appear to be only  
three Americans who practise Psa, and these three date back quite 12 years; since  
then not one new one. It confirms what the other men say of Brill’s bad leadership,  
though of course this is only one factor.  

To pacify some of our more urgent members we have formed a Sub-Committee for Prop-  
aganda, but they have no power to take any steps without consulting the whole society.  
I will report of their activities from time to time and think that some good will  
come of it. I have sent a counter-proposal to the British Assoc., but the matter is  
still sub judice. We had a remarkable success this week at the British Psychol. Soc.,  
where I read a paper correlating adolescence and infancy. Professor Hunn, the chief  
 

educationalist in London, called it the most important contribution to the theory of  
education for many years, and this is only one example of the respect with which Psa  
is being received in the leading educational and psychological circles. If only physic-  
ians were as accessible! But their turn will come.  

Berlin. Is it impossible to get out of Sachs anything more than a promise to write? It  
seems a severe case of Schreibfaulheit.  

Best thanks, my dear Abraham, for the offer to send us the Jung-Adler article. It will  
be extremely welcome and valuable.  

The Flügel matter is perfectly all right. I also wanted to know how much money he had,  
and am glad that the answer solves your financial prob- lems. By the way, there is no  
question of one group giving a banquet to the whole Congress. In Holland we all paid  
separately, with the exception of certain specially invited guests, and this is surely  
the custom at all con- gresses.  

Vienna. Hiller will tell you that we may have to give up the use of the New Cavendish  
St address for the Press, but there is as yet nothing defini- tive. To my offer to buy the  
rights of the Five Lectures, Miss Chandler replied that it was not necessary to reprint  
them since copies could still be bought of the volume containing them (Clark Univ. Fest  
band). As this is such an obscure publication it does not help, and I shall continue  
efforts to acquire the rights.  

I wish to thank the senders of congratulations about my son. He and his mother make  
excellent progress and were out today. Of psa interest is the remark of his Viennese  
cousin, a boy of two, who expressed his desire to have a sister “wenn nur zum hauen”.  

           Gratefully and cordially  
                      Ernest Jones